Music Education with Digital Technology

by Finney, John; Burnard, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780826494146
• ISBN10: 0826494145
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-13
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book draws together a range of innovative practices, underpinned by theoretical insight, to clarify musical practices of relevance to the changing nature of schooling and the transformation of music education and addresses a pressing need to provide new ways of thinking about the application of music and technology in schools. The contributors covers a diverse and wide-range of technology, environments and contexts on topics that demonstrate and recognize new possibilities for innovative work in education, exploring teaching strategies and approaches that stimulate different forms of musical experience, meaningful engagement, musical learning, creativity and teacher-learner interactions, responses, monitoring and assessment.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Changing identities
Music education as identity project in a world of electronic desires	p. 9
Perspectives from a new generation secondary school music teacher	p. 21
The gender factor: teaching composition in music technology lessons to boys and girls in Year 9	p. 30
Finding flow through music technology	p. 41
The mobile phone and class music: a teacher's perspective	p. 52
Researching digital classrooms
The DJ factor: teaching performance and composition from back to front	p. 65
Composing with graphical technologies: representations, manipulations and affordances	p. 76
Networked improvisational musical environments: learning through on-line collaborative music making	p. 96
Music e-learning environments: young people, composing and the internet	p. 107
Current and future practices: embedding collaborative music technologies in secondary schools	p. 117
Strategies for change
Strategies for supporting music learning through on-line collaborative technologies	p. 131
Pedagogical strategies for change	p. 142
New forms of composition, and how to enable them	p. 156
Music education and training: ICT, innovation and curriculum reform	p. 169
Strategies for enabling curriculum reform: lessons from Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong	p. 181
Creativity and technology: critical agents of change in the work and lives of music teachers	p. 196
Contributors	p. 207
Glossary	p. 211
Index	p. 221
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